Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	privy_a	10,584	5	9.9504	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20027	To the Kings most excellent Maiestie	Dee, John, 1527-1608.	1604 (1604)	STC 6466; ESTC S109499	1,200	1

To the Kings most excellent Maiestie IN most humble and lamentable manner beseecheth your Royall Maiestie your Highnesse most distressed Seruant Iohn Dee That as by the grace and prouidence of the Almightie you are our King our earthly Supreame Head and Iudge So it may please your sacred Maiestie eyther in your owne royall presence and hearing Or of the Lordes of your Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell Or of the present assembled Parlament States to cause your Highnesse sayd Seruant to be tryed and cleared of that horrible and damnable and to him most grieuous and dammageable Sclaunder generally and for these many yeeres last past in this Kingdome raysed and continued by report and Print against him Namely That he is or hath bin a Coniurer or Caller or Invocator of diuels Vpon which most vngodly and false report so boldly constantly and impudently auouched yea and vncontrolled and hitherto vnpunished for so many yeeres continuing Albeit your Maiesties said Suppliant hath published in Print diuers his earnest Apologies against it yet some impudent and malicious forraine enemie or English traytor to the florishing State and Honor of this Kingdome hath in Print Anno 1592. 7. Ianuarij affirmed your Maiesties said Suppliant to be the Coniurer belonging to the most Honorable Priuie Counsell of your Maiesties most famous last Predecessor Queene Elizabeth So that seeing the said abhominable Sclaunder is become so highly haynous and disgracefull that it pretendeth great discredit and disliking to be had also of the said most Honorable Lordes of your Maiesties priuie Counsell as to vse any Coniurers aduise and your said Suppliant to be the man It therefore seemeth vpon diuers respects to be very needefull due and speedy Order to be taken herein by your Maiesties wisedom and Supreme Authoritie by one of the three foresaid meanes or any other to haue your Highnesse said Suppliant to be tryed in the premisses Who offereth himselfe willingly to the punishment of Death yea eyther to be stoned to death or to be buried quicke or to be burned vnmercifully If by any due true and iust meanes the said name of Coniurer or Caller or Invocator of Diuels or damned Spirites can be proued to haue beene or to be duely or iustly reported of him or attributed vnto him Yea good and gratious King If any one of all the great number of the very strange and friuolous fables or histories reported and told of him as to haue beene of his doing were True as they haue beene told or reasonably caused any wondring among or to the many headed Multitude or to any other whosoeuer els And then your Highnesse said Suppliant vpon his said Iustification and Clearing made herein will conceyue great and vndoubted hope that your Maiestie will soone after more willingly haue Princely regard of redressing of your Highnesse said Suppliant his farder griefes and hinderances no longer of him possibly to be endured So long hath his vtter vndoing by little and little beene most vniustly compassed The Almightie and most mercifull God alwayes direct your Maiesties royall heart in his wayes of Iustice and Mercy as is to him most acceptable and make your Maiestie to be the most blessed and Triumphant Monarch that euer this Brytish Empire enioyed Amen The true Copie of M. Iohn d ee his Petition to the kings most excellent Maiestie exhibited Anno 1604. Iunij 5. at Greenewich